Chapter XXXI. for the relief of the heirs of William Robertson, deceased, and Daniel S
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Chap. XXXI.— An Act for the relief of the heirs of William Robertson, deceased, and Daniel S. Leonard. Feb. 24, 1832. *Be it enacted, &c., * Robertson authorized to surrender certificate of further credit, &c. That the heirs of William Robertson, late of Madison county, Alabama, deceased, be, and they are hereby, authorized to surrender, in the Land Office at Huntsville, in the state aforesaid, the “certificate of further credit,” bearing date on the seventh of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, which issued to the said William Robertson, in his life-time, for the north-east quarter of section number four, in township number one, of range number two east, in the district of lands offered for sale at Huntsville; and, on the payment of the balance due, if any, under the act of Congress, entitled “An act supplemental to an act, passed on the thirty-first March, eighteen hundred and thirty, entitled ‘An act for the relief of purchasers of public lands, and for the suppression of fraudulent practices at the public sales of lands of the United States,’ ” passed on the twenty-fifth day Act of Feb. 25, 1831, ch. 34.of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, the said heirs of the said William Robertson, deceased, shall be entitled to a patent for the said quarter section of land, in all respects, as they would have been if said certificate had been surrendered, and such balance paid, at or before the expiration of the time limited for that purpose by the provisions of Proviso.said act: *Provided, *Said quarter section of land shall not have been, before such surrender of said certificate, purchased by any other person; and, in that event a certificate shall issue to said heirs from said TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 32, 33, 34. 1832. 477 Land Office, for the full amount which may have been paid by the said Robertson, in his life-time, which shall be received in payment for any land of the United States which may be hereafter sold. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted, *That Daniel S. Leonard, who wasD. S. Leonard authorized to avail himself of act of Feb. 25, 1831, ch. 34. the purchaser of the north-east quarter of section twenty-two, in township one, of range one, east of the basis meridian of lands offered for sale at Huntsville, Alabama, be, and he is hereby, authorized to avail himself of the provisions of the act referred to in the foregoing section of this act, which was passed on the twenty-fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, under the limitations and restrictions prescribed for the heirs of the said William Robertson, deceased.
Approved, February 24, 1832.